Energy Security Issues in the Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Abstract

This article deals with energy security issues, the legal status of the Caspian Sea, and the pipeline policies of the great powers and local states and Turkey's policies as well. In a nutshell, the author sees China as interested mainly in economic goals, Russia as preoccupied with maintaining stability, and the United States as committed to promoting democracy. Kazakhstan's role is seen as a link between Europe and Asia (up to the Pacific), maintaining a ''global partnership'' with all of the main players.

Problems of interaction and interdependence of the EU and EAEU in the energy sphere

“…Based on numerous sources, which absorbed a wide range of EAEU documents, EU and diplomatic agreements, based on conceptual concepts contained in the work of well-known European, Russian and Kazakh scientists (Movkebayeva, 2019;Baizakova, 2010, Gubaidullina 2018, the following conclusions were drawn from the study of energy interdependence:…”

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“…Despite the rather high research of the issue of energy security in Eurasia (Inbrayeva et al, 2018;Mastepanov, 2015;Gracceva andZenewski, 2014, Kanellakis et al, 2013), we could not find a quantitative study measuring the current state of Kazakhstan's energy security and analyzing the dynamics of the development of its energy security. Many studies focus on the energy security of Central Asia (Akhmetov, 2015), the Eurasian Economic Union (Baev, 2012;Bogoviz et al, 2017), and only a few analyze the energy security of Kazakhstan itself (Baizakova, 2010;Karatayev and Clarke, 2014). This study aims to make a contribution to quantitative studies of energy security in Kazakhstan in particular and Central Asia in general.…”